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resultless

resultless adjective: without result; lacking effect, success or accomplishment; fruitless.

Adjective

resultless (not comparable)

  1. Without result; lacking effect, success or accomplishment; fruitless.
    • The search was resultless. Not only were no bodies or wreckage recovered but no trace was ever found.
    • Here in the narrow passage and the pitiless north, perpetual / Betrayals, relentless resultless fighting.1933, Robinson Jeffers, “Antrim”, in The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, New York: Random House, published 1937, page 473

Origin of resultless

From result + -less.

Words formed from resultless

Questions about resultless

What does resultless mean?
Resultless means without result; lacking effect, success or accomplishment; fruitless.
What part of speech is resultless?
Resultless is an adjective.

Words near resultless in the dictionary

  1. resulting in
  2. resulting trust
  3. resulting trusts
  4. resultingly
  5. resultive
  6. resultless
  7. resultlessly
  8. resultlessness
  9. results
  10. results in
  11. resultset

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